#AcademicRunPlaylist - 3/14/24

It was a gorgeous day in Boston, and after dropping my youngest off at after school activities I was able to go on a nice walk with talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was the final day of Hitotsubashi University's legal systems and AI event. It was great hearing from Jiro Kokuryo, and Jennifer Cobbe's talk on understanding accountability in AI supply chains is not to be missed
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWztnIEdTA
Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDYqoyEePkQ

Next was an incredible talk by Oren Bracha on the physicalism bias in intellectual property law at the Cambridge Faculty of Law. Bracha delivers deep insight about how physicalism seeps into many aspects of current IP law and jurisprudence, ending with an examination of issues around generative AI in this space. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xkX6VOcjO4

Next was an interesting pair of talks at the University of Cambridge by Hao Sun (LLM prompt evaluation and optimization) and Thomas Pouplin (retrieval-augmented sequential generation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYYYbQ_EN30

Next was an engaging panel on why the future of big tech is in infrastructure at the Oxford Internet Institute with Corinne Cath and Ashwin Mathew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABxFz_2rDc

Next was a fantastic conversation with William Gould on the Dartmouth basketball union and the changing legal landscape of college athletics labor at Stanford Law School. This is a masterful breakdown of the labor issues here that gives perspective on fields beyond college athletics (CW: there is a fairly racist statement at 18:51). Highly recommend if you skip that section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXMd1NC3fI

Next was a wide-ranging panel on queer representations of AI at the School of Advanced Study, University of London with Alicia Boyd, Edmond Chang, Liz Faber, Ute Kalender, and Kalle Westerling, PhD. There's some humanizing algorithm language here that I didn't like, but overall the conversation was great (and I learned that Alicia has excellent taste in sci-fi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvg73Ek1UA

Last was an informative talk by Yusuke Takamiya on Japanese competition law and policy at CIRC - CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HnpgN_Zh4